Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

- Haskins, Caryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand